Scientists Discover Car-Sized Moon Orbiting Earth

A celestial body has been orbiting our planet Earth for as far back as three years – usually called smaller than a normal moon. Boffins found that this vehicle estimated second natural satellite has been briefly orbiting mother Earth.

Elon Musk is quick to state that the vehicle estimated object was not his Tesla Roadster.

Scientists Discover Car-Sized Moon Orbiting Earth

The small moon is called 2020 CD3 and was seen by scientists Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Nasa-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona the evening of February 15.

The new smaller than usual moon, 2020 CD3, was found using a 1.52-meter telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory close to Tucson, Arizona.

The discoveries of the perception recommend that small scale moon 2020 CD3 entered Earth’s circle around three years prior, Minor Planet Center (MPC) affirmed this.

Minor Planet Center is the single overall area for receipt and appropriation of positional estimations of minor planets, comets and external sporadic normal satellites of the significant planets.

“BIG NEWS. Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3. On the night of February 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I found a 20th magnitude object. Here are the discovery images,” researchers Kacper Wierzchos tweeted.

“The object has just been announced by the MPC and its orbit shows that it entered Earth’s orbit some three years ago. Here is a diagram of the orbit created with the orbit simulator written by Tony Dunn,” Kacper Wierzchos said in second tweet.

In the event that you are wondering, which you will be, C-type (carbonaceous) space rocks are the most widely recognized assortment, conforming to 75 percent of known space rocks.

In its official assignment, MPC had expressed that orbit integrations show that “this orbit is temporarily bound to the Earth”, as indicated by a report.

“No evidence of perturbations due to solar radiation pressure is seen, and no link to a known artificial object has been found. Further observations and dynamical studies are strongly encouraged,” it added.

BIG NEWS (thread 1/3). Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3. On the night of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I found a 20th magnitude object. Here are the discovery images. pic.twitter.com/zLkXyGAkZl

(3/3) The object has a diameter between 1.9 – 3.5 m assuming a C-type asteroid albedo. But it's a big deal as out of ~ 1 million known asteroids, this is just the second asteroid known to orbit Earth (after 2006 RH120, which was also discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey).

Elon Musk Says The Car Is Not His

When Elon Musk saw a report on Twitter, he wasted through to no time to put it out that the vehicle isn’t his. Elon Musk said that the vehicle estimated object was not his Tesla Roadster which was launched into space in 2018. Tesla Roadster was the vehicle attached to Falcon Heavy rocket by SpaceX which was embedded into the Mars orbit. The Tesla vehicle with a sham named Starman which was launched into space is probably going to remain there for a huge number of years before colliding with Earth or Venus.